Аннотация: The Short Story of how Vanya Zhukov offered to make journalists a diplomats
The Short Story of how Vanya Zhukov offered to make journalists a diplomats
Vanya was going to have a rest a little when the deputy ambassador ran into the room:
- 'Urgently go to the plane! Do you want to admire the ocean again, sitting in a chair on the bank of the pool, to smoke the Havana cigar, to drink coffee, it is good to eat?'
Vanya looked at the Deputy Ambassador, trying to understand what this act of kindness means.
- 'The amphibious aircraft leaves in 15 minutes. Get on the plane!'
After the flight began, one of the crew members approached Vanya and explained that the aircraft needed urgent maintenance. For this reason, the plane flies to the East instead of the West.
Not many hours passed. Vanya stood in front of the great diplomat.
Documents, money, a good suit and not bad shoes at this moment seemed to belong to a some periods of a deep past .
The diplomat looked at Vanya. The view is not very good - after several hours of flight ...
The great diplomat got down to business:
- 'You write in Your text that the choose between "the two options should be made through their conceptual approbation at a meeting of the Assembly on international and military policy." I would suggest you to penetrate into a question more deeply. What if the members of the Assembly are busy?... For example, such tasks as obtaining cash from cash dispensers, their recalculation and distribution take time? And how to be with Your recommendations in this variant of events?'
- 'If the members of the Assembly are busy, then you should take a piece of paper. At the top to indicate "the mostly positive attitude." On one side leaf in a column you write "pros", and on the other - "cons." Then associate the "pros" and "cons" and then make the decision,' - Vanya has explained.
- 'And without any records it is clear that is a pity concerning a money. Money! - and those that have already been spent, and those that could be obtained in the future, " the great diplomat responded. - But 'partners' don't sleep. They developed a stormy activity. In fact, they already recognized. They make detailed recommendations ... It turns out - "we" need to show some kind of reaction. But there's hope ... It's not the first time. Everything, as history shows, can to be turned over... Such a situation ...'
The great diplomat looked with pleasure at the not rested hungry Vanya:
- 'Your task - to put forward the ideas, concepts, approaches!...'
- 'It is necessary to express about the new authorities ...' - Vanya offered. - 'What if to throw journalists into this honourable business? Later - it will be visible ...'
- 'Journalists have no powers,' - the diplomat objected.
- 'I mean,' - explained Vanya, - 'that it is possible to organize a press conference. It will be performed by a responsible person with authority. One of the journalists will ask him: "Do you consider the new authorities legitimate, and do you maintain contacts with the new authorities through diplomatic channels?"The responsible person will say something like, 'Yes, of course.' What mean this "Yes" - this every can on their own be guessing. But journalists will explain to "all" that the attitude to the new authorities of the East African country is positive. The word "Yes" should be correlated with the "legitimate".'
The great diplomat looked at Vanya attentively:
- 'Why do you always give the recommendations that have already been formulated? Just yesterday, I received six proposals with the ideas that you have just proposed. (The great diplomat nodded towards the folders lying on the edge of his Desk). You need to clear your head, - to run around the city to perform small tasks...'
The great diplomat made a gesture with his hand, as if he was throwing a dust off the table in the direction of the corridor.
Vanya was walking down the street. From a car parked next to the sidewalk, the sound of a radio was heard: "Recognition of the new authorities of the East African country. An important official at a press conference today received a question from one of the journalists: "Do you consider the new authorities legitimate, and do you maintain contacts with the new authorities through diplomatic channels?" This question was answered by an important official: "Yes, of course." Thus, we make opinion about the recognition of the new authorities of the East African country."
"What a perspicacious person", - Vanya thought of the great diplomat. - "How many circumstances he should take into account. "Of course ... But ... However ... Nevertheless ..." Nothing that members of Assembly are busy ... The other diplomatic minds are, exist... The new authorities appeared in the East African country - nothing a bad ... "We" push forward journalists - let them recognize legitimacy of these authorities ... Ingeniously!..." "The brainy person - his head is working".
Vanya quickened the pace. "It is good to eat something before going to bed ..."
April 16, 2019 17:35
Translation from Russian into English: April 17, 2019 00:47.
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